Anne Orford FASSA is a professor of law and an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne.

Anne Orford
AwardsKathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowship, 2015
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide PhD
ThesisSecuring the new world order: an analysis of representations of the legality of Security Council actions in the post-Cold War era (1999)
Doctoral advisorHilary Charlesworth
Academic work
DisciplineInternational law
InstitutionsMelbourne Law School

Her main focus of research are in the areas of public international law, history and theory of international law and international economic law.

She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2016[1] and is a past President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, furthermore she holds the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor title with which the University of Melbourne "recognises and rewards outstanding leaders within the University's professoriate".[2][3]

She has been awarded honorary doctorates in law by the University of Gothenburg (2012),[4] and the University of Helsinki (2017)[5] and the Woodward Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Social Sciences by the University of Melbourne. She was awarded the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2015.[6]

Selected books

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Orford is author of several books including the following.

  • Anne Orford; Florian Hoffmann; Martin Clark (2016). The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-870195-8.
  • Anne Orford (2 November 2006). International Law and its Others. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-46039-2.
  • Anne Orford (30 June 2021). International Law and the Politics of History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-48094-9.
  • Anne Orford (20 January 2011). International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-49424-3.

References

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  1. ^ "Academy Fellow: Professor Anne Orford FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Archived from the original on 21 May 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  2. ^ Council, Australian Research (12 June 2018). "Profiles: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellows". www.arc.gov.au. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  3. ^ Smith, Katherine (18 December 2020). "The University's Redmond Barry Distinguished Professors". About us. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  4. ^ "Honorary doctors | University of Gothenburg". www.gu.se. Retrieved 13 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Angela Merkel, Sauli Niinistö and Irja Askola to receive honorary doctorates from the University of Helsinki". University of Helsinki. 7 March 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2021. The Faculty of Law will confer honorary doctorates on Anne Orford, professor of international law;
  6. ^ "University congratulates new ARC Laureate Fellows". The Melbourne Newsroom. 24 June 2015. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2021.